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AWS announces Graviton4, with up to 30% better performance, 50% more cores, and 75% more memory bandwidth than Graviton3, and Trainium2 for 4x faster training — AWS Graviton4 is the most powerful and energy-efficient AWS processor to date for a broad range of cloud workloads
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS plans to offer access to Nvidia's H200 chips, following Azure's similar dual-pronged approach of offering its own Maia chips as well as Nvidia's latest — - Amazon Web Services announced Trainium2, a chip for training artificial intelligence models, and it will also offer access … | Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Amazon launches Amazon Q, a workplace-focused AI assistant starting at $20/user/month that competes with ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft's Copilot, and others — Amazon has been racing to shake off the perception that it is lagging in the push to take advantage of artificial intelligence.
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AWS launches S3 Express One Zone, an S3 tier aimed at data-intensive applications with a 10x write speed improvement and 50% lower request cost than standard S3 — At its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon AWS cloud arm today announced a major update to its S3 object storage service … | Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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Many local US police departments are fearmongering by warning about the privacy risk of the iPhone's NameDrop tool, which is used to wirelessly share contacts — Some police departments have said the new iPhone feature is risky. Don't worry about it.
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Europol, Norway, the US, Ukraine, and other countries arrest members of a ransomware group in Ukraine linked to attacks on organizations in 71 countries — In cooperation with Europol and Eurojust, law enforcement agencies from seven nations have arrested in Ukraine the core members …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Ikea announces new smart home sensors: Parasoll, for doors and windows, Vallhorn, for motion, and Badring, for water leakages, on sale in H1 2024 for under $10 — Ikea's push to democratize the smart home continues with the introduction of three new Zigbee sensors that won't break the bank.
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An in-depth reflection on Marc Andreessen's “techno-optimist manifesto”: tech is amazing, the high costs of delays, AI and risk, d/acc, centralization, and more — Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Sriram Krishnan, Nate Soares, Jaan Tallinn, Vincent Weisser … | Joseph Hoppe / Wall Street Journal: |
The UK CMA provisionally finds Adobe's $20B Figma acquisition would likely harm innovation for design software and invites responses ahead of a final decision — The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found Adobe's planned $20 billion acquisition …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2023, down from $85B in 2022; just seven unicorns are expected in 2023, vs. 48 in 2022 and 108 in 2021 — The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist … | Justine Calma / The Verge: |
Google says a first-of-its-kind geothermal energy project in Nevada, to power its data centers with clean energy in partnership with Fervo, is up and running — A first-of-its-kind geothermal project is now up and running in Nevada, where it will help power Google's data centers with clean energy.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Pika, a startup building AI tools to generate and edit videos, raised $55M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, after emerging from stealth six months ago — The generative AI hype hasn't died down yet. — Case in point, Pika, a startup creating an AI-powered platform to edit and generate videos …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Oxford Internet Institute study of 2M+ people's internet use: no “smoking gun” for widespread mental health harms, opposing the idea that some are more at risk — No evidence to support ‘popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk’, according to researchers
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| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
How OpenAI's leadership chaos and ongoing governance issues may affect its business and its previous $86B valuation ahead of a tender offer to buy staff shares — Also Binance's guilty plea and Finnish electricity prices. — OpenAI — Ten days ago OpenAI was worth $86 billion.| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
A profile of Curtis Priem, Nvidia's co-founder and first CTO, who holds ~200 patents, sold his Nvidia stock years ago, and has donated $275M to his alma mater — If Curtis Priem, Nvidia's first CTO, had held onto all his stock, he'd be the 16th richest person in America.| Dan Robinson / The Register: |
Omdia: Meta and Microsoft are expected to receive 150K Nvidia H100 GPUs each by the end of 2023, three times as many as Google, Amazon, or Oracle — Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up — Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing.
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| Ofcom: |
A study of UK teenagers: 79% of online users aged 13 to 17 use generative AI, compared to 31% of internet users aged 16+; 51% of ages 7 to 17 use Snap's My AI — Teenagers and children in the UK are far more likely than adults to have embraced generative artificial intelligence (AI) …
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| Jef Feeley / Bloomberg: |
FTX investors sue MLB, Formula 1, and the Mercedes Formula 1 team, accusing them of aiding FTX's fraud, broadening a class-action suit against 24+ celebrities — - FTX investors say leagues allegedly aided $11 billion fraud — Mercedes-Benz Formula 1 racing team also named in lawsuit
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| Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic: |
Survey of Substack and Telegram finds “scores” of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters among Substack's ~17K total; over 16 use Nazi symbols — The newsletter platform's lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.| June Yoon / Financial Times: |
Challenges for chip startups: TSMC and Nvidia dominate and hold thousands of patents, buying chipmaking gear, and complexity; Nvidia's HGX H100 has 35K parts — Barriers to entry in an industry dominated by TSMC and Nvidia are very high — In the drama that has just played out in Silicon Valley … | Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
PDD, which runs Temu and Pinduoduo, reports Q3 revenue up 94% YoY to ~$9.6B vs. ~$7.7B est., and net income up 47%, after grabbing Shein users; PDD jumps 15%+ — - Revenue almost doubled while profit jumped 47% last quarter — Investors betting Temu will sustain momentum against rivals
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Adobe: US Cyber Monday sales rose 9.6% YoY to a record $12.4B, driven by deep discounts that peaked at 31% in electronics and 23% for apparel — Deep discounts on everything from beauty products and toys to electronics have enticed U.S. shoppers to splurge on Christmas purchases and ring …
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